Forum user: WilM

Anssi,

I just found this same problem. My application automatically sends several query parameters to a script which dynamically generates the URL for the clip to the played. The automatic addition of ?start=0 is causing problems. At the very least, it should check whether the clip URL already has other query strings and add &start instead of ?start.

Wil

The overlay will always be initialized by a user clicking on an image of link.

Can I place a while loop before the appendTo() that would test if document.ready is true and otherwise sleep for a few millisenconds? I know it's a bit of a hack, but it would ensure there would never be a problem, right?

Thanks again!!!

Wil

@jpsimmons,

You ROCK! This did solve the display issue, but I am concerned about your warning. Can you think of a way to possibly protect from the the IE issues by maybe preventing the overlay from loading until the document is done loading?

I want to buy you a beer...or something. How can I contact you?

Thanks,

Wil

Hi,

I am having an issue with getting the overlay to center in the browser window. The overlay div is under a hierarchy of other divs that have the "position: relative" setting. The result is that my overlay is way off to the right-bottom of the screen and the player I am trying to overlay is only partly visible.

Is there a trick to override the CSS conflict and ensure the overlay is not affected so that it is always centered in the window?

Thanks,

Wil

I WISH I could get it to position itself centered in the window....my issue is that it is not!

The DIV is under a hierarchy of elements that have their position set to "relative" and this is really messing up the placement of the overlay window!

:-(

Wil

Hi,

Just wanted to clarify that this is not a Flowplayer issue. It is a CSS issue that I am taking a look at.

Wil

They are videos produced using Camtasia Pro 5.

Here is one sample SWF file: http://dr98sbink0lqu.cloudfront.net/test/registerwordpress.swf

Thanks,

Wil

Does Flowplayer support playing SWF files? I cannot get it to play one.

Thanks,

Wil

Liam,

Thanks again for the help!

Wil

Liam,

This is awesome! I just ran into this problem with IE and was about to follow a bug report.

Is there a way to modify this code so that this warning displays instead of the player itself? Right now I get a Black Screen where the player should be when this error occurs. My users are novice users and may get confused....of course I could always make the error message pop-up and or flash bright red is 72-point font! :-)

Thanks again,

Wil

Tony,

I do exactly what you are looking for with WordPress. I am using Amazon S3 for storing my videos.

Amazon has an API that allows you to create expiring authenticated links to content. This means that when the user loads your page, the URL for the video that will play in Flowplayer gets generated on the fly and is only good for a short period of time.

Now, in that period, a savvy user could indeed still go download the content to their machine, but if they look at the page source and simply try to share the link with someone else, that link will expire at your provided interval and they will no longer be able to use it to get anything. The only way to generate a valid link to access the media would be to access your Wordpress membership site.

Wil

Is there a way to change the error message a user gets when there is no flash plug-in installed or when the version is too old?

I am using flowplayer() and not the flash-embed method.

Thanks!

The toggling of play/pause only happens for me in Firefox. When entering Fullscreen the play/pause status is toggled. When exiting fullscreen mode it is not toggled.

IE works as I would expect: Play/Pause state is NOT changed.

I believe the correct behavior is to NOT change the current play/pause state when entering or exiting Fullscreen mode.